Scrabble?! BITE

Definitions of BITE in various dictionaries:

noun - a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person

noun - a small amount of solid food

noun - a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin

noun - a light informal meal

noun - (angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait

noun - wit having a sharp and caustic quality

noun - a strong odor or taste property

noun - the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws

noun - a portion removed from the whole

verb - to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws

verb - cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort

verb - penetrate or cut, as with a knife

verb - deliver a sting to

To cut, grip, or tear with or as if with the teeth.

To pierce the skin of with the teeth, fangs, or mouthparts.

To sting with a stinger.

To cut into with or as if with a sharp instrument: The sword bit straight through the wooden shield.

To grip, grab, or seize: bald treads that couldn’t bite the icy road; bitten by a sudden desire to travel.

To eat into; corrode.

To cause to sting or be painful: cold that bites the skin; a conscience bitten by remorse.

To grip, cut into, or injure something with or as if with the teeth.

To have a stinging effect.

To have a sharp taste.

To take or swallow bait.

To be taken in by a ploy or deception: tried to sell the Brooklyn Bridge, but no one bit.

The act of biting.

A skin wound or puncture produced by an animal’s teeth or mouthparts: the bite of an insect.

A stinging or smarting sensation.

An incisive, penetrating quality: the bite of satire.

An amount removed by or as if by an act of biting: Rezoning took a bite out of the town’s residential area.

An amount of food taken into the mouth at one time; a mouthful.

A light meal or snack.

The act or an instance of taking bait: fished all day without a bite; an ad that got a few bites but no final sales.

A secure grip or hold applied by a tool or machine upon a working surface.

The part of a tool or machine that presses against and maintains a firm hold on a working surface.

The angle at which the upper and lower teeth meet; occlusion.

The corrosive action of acid upon an etcher’s metal plate.

An amount of money appropriated or withheld: trying to avoid the tax bite.

To fall dead, especially in combat.

To be defeated.

The central meaning shared by these verbs is “to seize and tear or grind something with the teeth”: bite into a ripe tomato; horses champing grain; a dog gnawing a bone.

adj - to seize with the teeth [v BIT, BITTEN, BITING, BITES] : BITEABLE